Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should . |
| 2 | we 're not eating in the back room , he can get stuffed , we 'll eat in the posh end for a change Jul , like we did last time |
| 3 | It did not appear to be caused by needle or pusher , because it was not happening in a regular line — just spasmodically . |
| 4 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 5 | Their view of the world is contained in the belief ‘ if it 's not happening in the domestic market , it 's not happening at all ’ . |
| 6 | Supposedly grown-up people that believe human beings can not practise safe sex and contraception , or that it is right to deny a 14-year-old girl who has been raped an abortion because it would be morally wrong in the eyes of God , are not living in the real world . |
| 7 | If the Prime Minister thinks that all that adds up to recovery , he is not living in the real world . |
| 8 | But if that 's an incentive they 're not living in the real world . |
| 9 | ‘ Anybody who says there is not a direct connection between people 's health and unemployment is not living in the real world . |
| 10 | A NORTH Wales MP has accused Labour supporters of ‘ behaving like spoilt children ’ and of not living in the real world . |
| 11 | A NORTH Wales MP has accused Labour supporters of ‘ behaving like spoilt children ’ and of not living in the real world . |
| 12 | Referring to the Rhyl Labour Party campaign to persuade the public to send preprinted ‘ Deeds Not Words ’ postcards to him at the House of Commons , Mr Richards said : ‘ Anybody who thinks that sending postcards and petitions is going to change the price of bread is not living in the real world . ’ |
| 13 | For them there was nothing tame about not living in the fast lane ; nothing sanctimonious about unconsciously keeping clear of the edge of the cliff . |
| 14 | We are also very strongly influenced by our expectations ; if we have heard and understood half a sentence , it seems that our brain is already guessing at what the rest of it will be before it is heard , and is certainly not acting in a passive way like a simple machine . |
| 15 | In the present study , the noun-noun combination does not produce any more reliable plural continuations than does the name-name combination , so such a contrast mechanism is not operating in the present study . |
| 16 | This is where we live , and for those of us not dwelling in the inner city or immobilised with fear by the threat of atomic war , modernity is really quite comfortable . |
| 17 | Solid as a bull whale in his confidence and peering through eyes that suggest he is not lacking in a little magic himself , Hugh Smith calmly rebuts every argument that London is in decline . |
| 18 | Rauschning 's departure had brought to the fore worries that Danzig was not sharing in the economic recovery about which the Reich newspapers — strictly controlled by the NSDAP — trumpeted so loud . |
| 19 | The universe is not expanding in an inflationary way today . |
| 20 | The world , however , was not moving in the desired direction and the Left often annoyed Labour leaders by pointing this out in public . |
| 21 | I mean in Italy for example , you know some of the bigger clubs , you know they 're literally run by your Fiats etc. , big very very big companies , and I would say eventually , I 'm not saying in the near future , but certainly eventually , that that might happen here . |
| 22 | He could not say that he had scruples of conscience for not joining in the military training . |
| 23 | Sipping a Sling does not have the same flavour of nostalgia when you are not sitting in the old hotel with the arches and verandahs imagining you are Somerset Maugham . |
| 24 | And this of course , included not playing in the Grand Slam Cup because I was defending the idea of the ATP Tour . |
| 25 | If you 're simply replacing the old cistern — and not putting in a new system alongside the old you will be without water for some considerable time while the job is done . |
| 26 | As well as not functioning in a submersed situation , dying cells , releasing adverse substances will pollute the water . |
| 27 | In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either . |
| 28 | The only controversy that has surrounded these measures is their date , for , most inconveniently , inscriptions and subscriptions do not match ; or , to put the matter more clearly , the emperor to whom the constitutions are attributed was not reigning in the consular year in which it is dated . |
| 29 | Is this not working in the opposite direction to treatment by similars and driving the imbalances , the illnesses , deeper into the system ? |
| 30 | Reports of original work , headed often by the names of many joint authors , became too full of jargon to be understood even by trained scientists who were not working in the particular field . |